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7
Oct '08

Obama and McCain’s Tax Plans

I’m a visual person, so I find charts like the one that chartjunk put together enormously helpful.

Obama and McCain's tax plans in graph form

I’m not seeing the tax increase that McCain said Obama was giving me. Maybe he’s just worried about the one that happens for the people up at the top of that thin, thin line.

9 Comments »

  • http://everythingsun.blogspot.com Mike F

    Maybe McCain thinks we all make at least $600,000 a year. And that we all have at least 5 houses.

    • http://www.maryrobinettekowal.com Mary Robinette Kowal

      Better to have five houses than to be elite.

  • Krista

    Excellent chart. My thanks, I’m going to pass it along.

  • http://chris-gerrib.livejournal.com Chris Gerrib

    Mary – please don’t try to confuse people with logic. It’s like trying to teach a pig to sing. :-)

    • http://www.maryrobinettekowal.com Mary Robinette Kowal

      My understanding is that Wilbur had an excellent singing voice.

  • Suzanne

    One thing Obama fails to understand, perhaps, is that taxing the rich never hurts the rich. It only hurts those below them who end up paying for those tax increases through increased costs of goods and services.

    Better, I think, to give tax breaks to everyone–something in between McCain and Obama’s plan. Something that looks more like a straight bar reaching from the top of the page to the bottom.

    • http://www.maryrobinettekowal.com Mary Robinette Kowal

      The goal isn’t to hurt anyone. It’s to spread the burden between those who have and have not.

  • http://davidanthonydurham.com David Anthony Durham

    Hi Mary,

    Thanks for this. I had to stare at it for awhile to make sense of it. And then it popped into focus and I was like, “Yeah, nice”.

    • http://www.maryrobinettekowal.com Mary Robinette Kowal

      The visuals help me more than I can say.

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